Избранные цитаты из мира программирования

"Clean up after yourself when you code"
Martin Fowler

"Code reuse is the Holy Grail of Software Engineering"
Alan Perlis

"Bad code just happens, inevitably"
Steve Yegge

"Yet manual refactoring really is about cutting down a forest with an axe - we need refactoring tools to take a real chain saw to the problem"
Martin Fowler

"Smells aren't inherently bad on their own - they are often an indicator of a problem rather than the problem themselves"
Martin Fowler

" I think one of the most valuable rules is avoid duplication. "Once and only once" is the Extreme Programming phrase"
Martin Fowler

"A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming, is not worth knowing"
Douglas Crockford

"If something smells, it definitely needs to be checked out, but it may not actually need fixing or might have to just be tolerated"
Martin Fowler

"First we'll solve the "that works" part of the problem. Then we'll solve the "clean code" part"
Kent Beck

"It is better to have 100 functions operate on one data structure than 10 functions on 10 data structures.”
Alan Perlis

"Beauty is the ultimate defence against complexity.”
David Gelernter

"Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live”
Martin Golding